With home prices climbing steadily over the last few years, today's homeowners are sitting on record-high levels of tappable equity, offering them a lot of borrowing power. And, for those looking to ...

Discover how banks set loan interest rates, from Federal Reserve policies to market trends and borrower creditworthiness, for ...

Mortgage rates are the interest rates charged by the mortgage holder, typically a bank, to the borrower, typically a ...

With home values remaining high overall, a growing number of homeowners are weighing whether it makes sense to tap into their ...

I’ve been around this industry long enough to know the difference between a “tough year” and a turning year. The year 2025 ...

Laura Brandao steps into a leadership role at MLB Residential Lending, bringing her vision and strategies to enhance ...

Personal loans with strong credit, but there’s no option to prequalify.

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The Trump administration is set to resume garnishing the wages of some student loan borrowers who are in default beginning in early 2026, and a leading advocacy group for student loan borrowers is ...

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Borrowers have spent much of 2025 trying to keep up with dizzying changes to the federal student loan system. The Trump administration and Congress are in the process of overhauling everything from ...